WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH: EXTENSION, NARROWING, BIFURCATION AND BACKFORMATION
There is a number of mechanisms in English that help enlarge its lexis. In addition to derivation and compounding, generally considered to be most productive in English word formation, this paper aims at outlining a number of other available means of getting new meanings of words in established forms in English. More precisely, the intention, in fact, is to provide an outline of particular types of word formation in English, focusing on extension, narrowing, bifurcation and backformation. Most examples representing the corpus in this study have been taken from Hudson (2000). Crystal (2002), Adams (1973), Kovecses (2002) and Bauer (1983) have also proven invaluable as sources of a significant portion of examples in the study.